Next year’s budget mainly targeted at cutting direct dependence on oil: Rouhani

TEHRAN- Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that the main goal of the national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1400 (begins on March 21, 2021) is to downsize the government and cut the direct dependence on oil incomes.

By Ebrahim Fallahi

An oil-free economy: from words to deeds

TEHRAN – As one of the world’s oil-rich countries, Iran, for long, has been deeply relied on oil revenues for its economy and even all the governments which have come and gone since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, have based their economic policies upon oil while other areas remained deprived of the attention.